books.google.co.uk - In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Buddhism_and_Islam_on_the_Silk_Road.html?id=N7_4Gr9Q438C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBuddhism and Islam on the Silk Road